If I was Serena Williams, I'd enjoy storming into Applebee's and challenging dudes to arm wrestle. Just sliding into the booth in front of 'em--fuck you, wifey!--slamming my elbow down on the table and grunting, "Today is NOT your lucky day, Walter!" (Their names would generally be Walter or something close enough that they'd know I was speaking to them and not someone else.)

Someday I'd find myself in an Applebee's where Brandon Weeden was eating, and I'd have to go home unfulfilled, because he'd be too locked in on his Honey Pepper Chicken Tenders to notice me sitting across from him, staring him down, itching to snap his forearm, giddy over the prospects of making him cry. But when I got home, I'd watch Over The Top for the thousandth time, and things would be mostly OK again.

I assume that you & Hiko agree that this is likely how this would play out.

HoodooMan wrote:If I was Serena Williams, I'd enjoy storming into Applebee's and challenging dudes to arm wrestle. Just sliding into the booth in front of 'em--fuck you, wifey!--slamming my elbow down on the table and grunting, "Today is NOT your lucky day, Walter!" (Their names would generally be Walter or something close enough that they'd know I was speaking to them and not someone else.)

Someday I'd find myself in an Applebee's where Brandon Weeden was eating, and I'd have to go home unfulfilled, because he'd be too locked in on his Honey Pepper Chicken Tenders to notice me sitting across from him, staring him down, itching to snap his forearm, giddy over the prospects of making him cry. But when I got home, I'd watch Over The Top for the thousandth time, and things would be mostly OK again.

I assume that you & Hiko agree that this is likely how this would play out.

HoodooMan wrote:If I was Serena Williams, I'd enjoy storming into Applebee's and challenging dudes to arm wrestle. Just sliding into the booth in front of 'em--fuck you, wifey!--slamming my elbow down on the table and grunting, "Today is NOT your lucky day, Walter!" (Their names would generally be Walter or something close enough that they'd know I was speaking to them and not someone else.)

Someday I'd find myself in an Applebee's where Brandon Weeden was eating, and I'd have to go home unfulfilled, because he'd be too locked in on his Honey Pepper Chicken Tenders to notice me sitting across from him, staring him down, itching to snap his forearm, giddy over the prospects of making him cry. But when I got home, I'd watch Over The Top for the thousandth time, and things would be mostly OK again.

I assume that you & Hiko agree that this is likely how this would play out.

HoodooMan wrote:If I was Serena Williams, I'd enjoy storming into Applebee's and challenging dudes to arm wrestle. Just sliding into the booth in front of 'em--fuck you, wifey!--slamming my elbow down on the table and grunting, "Today is NOT your lucky day, Walter!" (Their names would generally be Walter or something close enough that they'd know I was speaking to them and not someone else.)

Someday I'd find myself in an Applebee's where Brandon Weeden was eating, and I'd have to go home unfulfilled, because he'd be too locked in on his Honey Pepper Chicken Tenders to notice me sitting across from him, staring him down, itching to snap his forearm, giddy over the prospects of making him cry. But when I got home, I'd watch Over The Top for the thousandth time, and things would be mostly OK again.

I assume that you & Hiko agree that this is likely how this would play out.

In their primes, if Arnold & Lou Farrigno were eating at Applebee's, one sitting in the lap of the other, and they kind of coiled their forearms into one massive forearm; they'd still lose, but I think they might escape the match without any broken bones.

Good match on right now with Stosur and 17 year old American Victoria Duval. Good crop of American girls coming up. Not so much with the boys.

Will watch the men's come second week, the way things are now in men's tennis that's really when the tourney starts. Rooting for Lisicki on the women's side, pound for pound the most talented player on tour not named Serena but so inconsistent. Outside of that, women's draw a mess - need some of that new blood to step up and establish.

Hikohadon wrote:Tirico prefaced Duval talking by saying she sounds like a 17 year old.

No, she sounds like a muppet.

Good win for her though. She can't win consistently with a powder puff serve like that, but she's young enough to develop one.

Does Sloane Stephens have legit game? She struggled yesterday mightily.

She's got a very legit game, mainly off the ground. She beat Serena and Sharapova this year, you can't scoff at that. She just comes and goes mentally, usually depending on the quality of her opponent. Maybe she'll get that Serena/Maria Kill 'Em All focus as she goes.